Here is another repost of a review I did awhile ago (1/22/09). This study examines the neurocognitive processes involved with comprehending a series of pictures, like in comics. The experimenters […]
Astute followers of this website will have noticed a conspicuous lack of an announcement of my ComicCon talk this year. In fact, I am taking a break from the Con […]
Nagai, Masayoshi, Nobutaka Endo, and Kumada Takatsune. 2007. “Measuring Brain Activities Related to Understanding Using near-Infrared Spectroscopy (Nirs).” In Human Interface and the Management of Information: Methods, Techniques and Tools […]
As of May 31st, this website has now been up for 9 years! Woo! A couple notes… Yesterday I formally proposed my dissertation, which means I am hopefully on track […]
This is a review of an experiment that tests the “180º Rule” of film editing using eye movements, and finds that no evidence for negative cognitive effect is found. The […]
I recently found this very interesting post about the “censorship” of French translations of Marvel Comics. Apparently this will be a chapter in a new book, but the examples they […]
As of Friday, I have officially entered Summer Break (here in a very rainy New England Spring), which means I’m hoping to have lots of interesting projects going soon. One […]
The paper “The Comic as a Binary Language” by J. Laraudogoitia examines the structure of comics by converting the contents of panels into binary code. Coding a broad number of […]
I have always wanted to learn sign language, and my labmate, who is an interpreter, recently began teaching me American Sign Language. It’s been very fun to finally be learning […]